Source: The Nation
by Joan Walsh
“Trump gave a long, sometimes incoherent press conference alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday. They were ostensibly meeting to discuss tariffs, but questions veered toward Epstein. Instead of slapping them down or ignoring them, as he sometimes does, Trump answered them. At length. And very strangely. Trump has maintained that he had a falling out with Epstein years ago. In 2004, they competed for the same gaudy Palm Beach property, and Trump outbid his friend and got it. (In some accounts, Epstein was the one who broke off the friendship over it.) Sounds plausible, for two scummy rich guys. Some of Trump’s communications people say Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago ‘for being a creep,’ in the words of henchman Stephen Cheung. But at Monday’s press conference, Trump gave a different explanation. And a hauntingly creepy one.” (07/29/25)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/keep-digging-donald-keeping-epstein-scandal/#